Scrubbing implement



Sept. 9, 1947. E. w. HALL SCRUBBING IMPLEMENT Filed Jan. 15, 1944"Inzienior: 15768716! WHaZZ.

Patented Sept. 9, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SCRUBBING IMPLEMENTElisha W. Hall, Scituate, Mass.

Application January 15, 1944, Serial No. 518,398

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to scrubbing implements for pots, kettles, pans,and other kitchen ware, and is concerned with an implement having ahandle to which is secured a strip helically wound to present a coil,one end of the cell being afilxed to the handle and the other end of thecoil being exposed for use in scrubbing. The invention will best beunderstood by reference to the following description when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing of one specific embodimentthereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in theappended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of one form of scrubbing implement embodying theinvention;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the same; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale on line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing and to the embodimerits of the inventionillustrated therein as examples, and having reference at first to theform shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, there is shown a strip 8 of scrubbingmaterial such as bias-cut cotton cloth formed to present numerousopenings 18 as by providing the same with deep corrugations 12 formed,for example, as pleats maintained as by stitches i4 therethrough. Thestrip as thus formed is spirally wound to present a coil (see Fig. 2)one end of which is affixed to a handle [8 (see Fig. 3) having a socketit which receives that end of the coil, while the other end is exposedbeyond the end of the socket.

The coil is adhesively secured in the socket as by making the socket,and preferably the whole handle, of water-soluble, cold-setting glue ofthe urea-formaldehyde type, preferably reinforced by mixing the samewith small pieces 28 of fibrous material such as Wood saw-dust. Thiscomposition is molded to form the handle and socket and preferably oneend of the coil is placed in the mold so that some of the compositionflows into the openings Ii) and interlocks with the corrugations 12,while at the same time some of the adhesive permeates the fibers of thecloth, thus firmly securing the coil in place in the socket of thehandle. The glue, on setting, is waterproof and hence will not beaffected by water while kettles, pans, and the like are being scrubbed.

The effectiveness of the implement for scrubbing is increased as byproviding the corrugated strip, preferably before coiling, with acovering 22 which combines an adhesive and an abrasive. Preferably, theadhesive is the aforesaid glue which, after drying, is waterproof. Theabrasive may be for example powdered tripoli. While the adhesive and theabrasive might be mixed and then applied, I have found it well to dipthe strip first into the adhesive to produce an adhesive coating andthen to dip the adhesive coating into the powdered abrasive to producean abrasive coating on the adhesive .coating. If the described glue beused, the strip should either be wound at once before the glue becomesset, or if the glue has become set, the strip should be worked to andfro to break the adhesive coating here and there so that the strip willcoil readily. If, on the other hand, the adhesive be inherentlyflexible, as latex rubber, for example, it will re main sufficientlyflexible so that it may be Wound without difficulty, and will remainflexible indefinitely, an advantage when in use. In either case, thedipping into the adhesive and into the abrasive should be such as toproduce a coating which enters the openings Ill and practically fillsthem to a sufiicient depth to produce a durable scrubbing surface.

Having thus described one embodiment of the invention, what I claim anddesire by Letters Patent to secure is: k

In a scrubbing implement for pots, pans, and other kitchenware, thecombination of a, strip of cloth formed to present numerous openings bythe provision of corrugations formed as pleats and spirally wound topresent a coil in which said openings are maintained, and a handle ofmolded plastic extending into said openings and inter looking with saidcorrugations.

- ELISHA W. HALL.

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